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Implicit SSL is making a comeback with some sites due to its immediate application of SSL

Implicit SSL is generally not considered a best practice when setting up FTPS. The preferred alternative is Explicit SSL, which is the current standard for FTPS connections for B2B Integrator. However, some of our customers experience intense busi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Regarding user account creation alert in SI/SFG

Hi Team, We do not have any option to get an alert or notification whenever we create a new user in Sterling Dashboard or File-Gateway, It will be good if we can have an alert in security point of you, Please let me know if you need any other info...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Need mTLS connectivity

This is a request for enhancement. Could you add mTLS to this product. Currently we have one partner that is requesting this capability in order to do business with them. mTLS is a type of mutual authentication in which the two parties in a connec...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists

"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

ITXA is allowing duplicate envelopes

ITXA allows users to create duplicate envelopes which causes enveloping and deenveloping process failures . Better to enhance ITXA product not to allow duplicate envelopes
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - TPUI > Envelopes > "Create from Data" - need ability to create Envelope Type "ISO 20022". Currently, only successful imports are built with BULK type only. Specific data tags are necessary for success, they should be documented.

Data from trading partners does not contain the BULK envelope format (APPHDR tag). So, the need is to take a non bulk data example and build an ISO 2002 envelope to be used with De-envelope process.Also, to have documentation to point out the nece...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Future consideration

ITXA - Operating System Specific jar files for the ITXA packs of all supported ITXA versions needs to be created and stored in IBM site, to share with the ITXA customers, during ITXA installation

For the packs installation in ITXA, we need a jar file. This jar file creation needs Windows OS, and the jar files should need to be OS-specific (either Linux, Windows, or AIX). In case any jar file contains another OS version, apart from the cust...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 3 Future consideration

Partner Level Authentication

We are starting to see more and more customers want to move to SSH Key only auth, however, we are not set to that today, nor are all of our customers ready/willing to make that switch. Since the authentication requirement is set at a system level,...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - Inactive Partner Report

Create a reporting process or last envelope modified date so inactive partners can be identified. Inactive partners can be partners with no activity greater than 30 days or 60 days (possible configurable parameter).
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 2 Not under consideration